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REPORTS OF CASES. 
the knee has its normal smoothness. I would like to know how 
to account for the blood-clot at the centre of the tumor, and, if 
any other veterinarians have had similar cases, in their exper¬ 
ience, I would be glad to hear about them. 
Case II. In reply to Dr. Johnson, of Sioux City, Iowa, in 
regard to cases of scirrhous cord in horses, I had two cases last 
spring, one four, the other two years old. The owners thought 
my price too high for castrating, so a harness-maker was em¬ 
ployed to operate at one dollar apiece. As result, both had 
scirrhous cord on each side, within four weeks’ time of castra¬ 
tion. 
I injected cocaine at several points in the field of operation, 
and from the four-year-old one cord weighed four pounds, the 
other two pounds and four ounces. I only used creolin solu¬ 
tion with cotton batten well soaked and redressed every day. 
The large colt was used every day following the third after 
operation. 
ABDOMINAL LESIONS WITH RECURRENT COLICS. 
By Hugh Thomson, Newman Grove, Nebraska. 
I send description of a case treated first during the summer 
of 1900. Symptoms present at that time were as follows :— 
Pulse and temperature normal, anxious expression of counte¬ 
nance, would eat a little and then stop to paw in one corner of 
the stall. 
Diagnosis: Catarrh of the intestines. Gave calomel and 
aloes ball and left homeopathic dilution of nux vomica. Pain 
subsided, and two days later animal was turned to pasture. 
In the fall animal was taken up and used as a saddle horse 
for hunting, stayed well all the fall of 1901, when after feeding 
for two weeks on wheat-straw and oats the same symptoms as 
before appeared. Gave same diagnosis and treatment. The 
animal apparently recovered, was sent to pasture and was all 
right for a month. A week after taking up, the mare was again 
taken sick. She would sit on her haunches like a dog, with 
frequent intervals of rolling, and turning head toward either 
flank. Urine passed frequently, about half a teacupful at a time, 
of a mucilaginous thickness, and color of flax-seed tea. Pulse 
60 and fluttering. Temperature just above normal. No appe¬ 
tite noi thirst 5 bowels had moved regularly 5 abdomen tucked 
up. Diagnosis. Calculus or some growth of the intestines. 
Prognosis unfavorable. Treatment : Arecoline, gr. j, hypoder¬ 
mically, produced a free evacuation from the bowels. Left gin, 
